The Legend of 1900 (1998)

a poor child is abandoned by his parents, still in swaddling clothes, aboard the 'virginian' transatlantic liner. the crew finds him and takes care of him by adopting him and calling him the century that has just begun: the twentieth century. the foundling will grow aboard the ship without ever coming down, meeting characters of every type and every social class. for him every journey will be a world to underline with the melodies of his music, because, among all the works he could do, he chose to play the piano. his talent will become legend, so much so that the jazz king, jerry roll morton, will challenge him in a piano duel.